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To the twentieth hee answereth negatively, … To the twentieth hee answereth negatively, saving as aforesaid.
To the 21th negatively.
To the 22th negatively.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
Christopher Nocke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 20th of June 1656.
Exámined upon the foresaid allegation.
'''Rp. 2.'''
'''Benjamin Dimmock''' of Ratcliff in the county of Middlesex Mariner<br />
aged 26 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined.
To the first árticle hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth<br />
and was masters mate of the shipp the ''George Bonadventure'' arlate<br />
the voyage in question, and thereby alsoe knoweth that the producents<br />
John Crampe (her commander) Major Chamberlaine and company were<br />
and are her owners, and for such commonly accounted.
To the second article and schedule annexed hee referreth himselfe to the<br />
said schedule, and otherwise cannot depose saving what followeth.
To the third 4 and 5th articles hee saith and deposeth that after the said<br />
shipp had taken in most part of her outwards lading, namely<br />
on New yeers day 1654 this deponent was shipped in this port to goe<br />
her masters mate the said voyage, and after such his shipping namely<br />
on the seventeenth of the same moneth there went an hundred and tenn<br />
barrells of herrings (or thereabouts) laden aboard her, which were said to be sent by and<br />
to be for the account of the arlate Mr George ffarington, and saith<br />
that the said shipp having soe received her outwards lading, departed<br />
therewith, (saving a parcell of butter and cheese which had bin laden<br />
aboard and was seized by the officers of the Customes and taken out of<br />
her the eighteenth of January aforesaid), and arived at Zant and there<br />
the said Captaine [?Cranrye] and company delivered her said outwards lading<br />
(that was carried in the said shipp) to John dobson and Richard ffarington<br />
factors of the said George ffarington, and saith that after such discharge<br />
and deliverie of the said goods, the said shipp by the said further order<br />
went and sailed from Zant to the Morea, and at the Morea tooke<br />
in a parcell of cheese and brought the same to Zant and there delivered<br />
the same unto the said factors, and afterwards went and tooke in another<br />
parcell of cheese at the Morea and brought that alsoe to Zant and<br />
delivered it unto them, and all by their order, all which hee knoweth<br />
being masters mate of the said shipp and goeing from place to place in her<br />
and keeping a journall of the voyage, which hee hath now with him. And<br />
otherwise cannot depose.
To the sixth árticle hee saith and deposeth that after the said shipp the<br />
''George Bonadventure'' had delivered out her said last lading brought from<br />
the Morea, the said factors detained her at Zant without imployment<br />
five monethes or thereabouts, and then sent her to the port of Argastol<br />
in Cephalonia and sent one Thomas dobson Cape merchant or<br />
factor in her, and ordered the said Captain [?Craneye] to followe the orders<br />
and directions of the said Thomas dobson, as this deponent heard both<br />
the said Captaine and Thomas dobson say, And otherwise cannot<br />
depose, not knowing of the writing or giving the schedule arlate
To the 7th, 8th and 9th articles hee saith and deposeth that the said<br />
shippd deposeth that the said<br />
shipp +
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